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Category: Civil Rights

Polygamy central issue in Utah Attorney General race

Posted on October 25, 2008February 21, 2019 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

For Hill’s part, she said polygamists would never have to fear being prosecuted for their religion. She contends that the state’s bigamy statute is unconstitutional in the wake of the 2003 Supreme Court ruling Lawrence v. Texas.

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THIS WEEK: Christian-Hindu Unrest leads to Violence in India

Posted on September 19, 2008September 23, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Thousands of Christians staged road blockades in several parts of the city on Sunday, after suspected Bajrang Dal activists carried out a series of attacks on prayer halls in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Chikmagalur districts, alleging conversion…

Police resorted to caning to disperse the protesters, including nuns and women, in the evening near Milagres Hall complex, while a few people threw stones at the police. In the melee, some were hurt and a few vehicles damaged.

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EEOC issues New Guidelines on Religious Discrimination

Posted on August 6, 2008December 10, 2009 by Michael Peabody

Thanks to the tireless efforts of many the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has released new guidelines that make clearer recommendations regarding workplace religious discrimination and accommodation of religious practices.  The full guidelines, available at http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/religion.html , are remarkable in that the EEOC has clarified definitions and provided clear examples of prohibited conduct that can…

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It’s about the Kids, Stupid: A Review of The Future of Marriage by David Blankenhorn (Nicholas P. Miller)

Posted on July 29, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

In response to the articles by Professor David Crane and John Stevens regarding potential problems with a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage, attorney Nicholas P. Miller has offered the following essay in which he responded to The Future of Marriage, by David Blankenhorn.  One of the bedrock principles of ReligiousLiberty.TV is to present opportunity for…

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Unlikely Allies on Prison Reform – Coming together on a wedge issue (New York Times)

Posted on June 28, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

For conservatives and liberals, issues such as crime and punishment are losing their divisiveness as the left recognizes the importance of fighting crime and the right finds practical reasons for reform.  We will see more of this as the former religious right is pushed into irrelevance. By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN EXCERPT: In those moments of…

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VIDEO: Michael Newdow in Panel at Boston College on Religious Freedom and the Pledge of Allegiance

Posted on June 28, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

This is particularly relevant this election year. From http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/newdow/  October 18, 2006 – Boston College – Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life Every day millions of schoolchildren pledge allegiance to the American flag and “the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Michael Newdow…

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“A Call To Renewal” – Barack Obama on the Role of Religion in Public Life

Posted on June 25, 2008March 6, 2020 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

BARACK OBAMA TRANSCRIPT: ‘Call to Renewal’ Keynote Address Wednesday, June 28, 2006 Washington, DC Good morning. I appreciate the opportunity to speak here at the Call to Renewal‘s Building a Covenant for a New America conference. I’ve had the opportunity to take a look at your Covenant for a New America. It is filled with…

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Marriage Amendment: In California, your state constitutional rights are in the hands of your neighbors

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Michael Peabody

There has been much discussion about the California ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriages from a moral / social / religious perspective, but not much about the concept of overturning court decisions by majority vote.  Vikram David Amar at Findlaw writes in a post entitled, “The California Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Opinion: The People…

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Manifest Destiny and the Momentum of Empire: Making Sense of America’s Global War on Terrorism

Posted on June 20, 2008 by Greg Hamilton

By Gregory W. Hamilton Today there are two significant global movements that enjoy a symbiotic relationship. The first involves America’s accelerated role as the world’s propagator of democratic values, and as a matter of national and international security the world’s enforcer of those values. The second is the not-so-obvious rapid global expansion of Christianity, a…

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California Supreme Court to Decide A Case Where Medical Rights v. Workplace Religious Freedom

Posted on June 19, 2008December 23, 2019 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Soon after issuing its opinion that gay marriage cannot be prohibited under the Constitution, the California Supreme Court is about to issue a ruling in a case where a physician declined to provide fertilization services on a lesbian (unmarried) couple, but referred them to another clinic that did provide the service on the basis that…

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